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Timaru Electro-Medical Institute NORTH STREET. PH YSIOTtfKKA** Jf.

! 'T'HE WAR demonstrated that It waa | A possible by physical means to rehabilitate with a surprising degre® ! of speed many »f those incapacitated by wounds and disease. It also taught the lesson that functional I sioration was the final aim—to quota from the Surgeon-General of the Army, “Modern medicinal treatment dose not end with physical euro, Functional restoration is the final end of the modern physicians and surgeons. . . In the Army, ninety per cent, of all cases treated by physiotherapeutic measures were able to return to their former or allied vocations. Two points in this connection should bo noted: (l) There was marked shortening of the time of disability; (2) many who otherwise would have been permanently crippled, and consequently would have : boen a burden to the community, I were roturned to production and remunerative work.”

T. FR3CBBY, 22, DAVIE STREET, TKMUXA, r*AXI FOR HIRE, at all HOURS, Reasonable Charge, prompt Service. Tfeofcta 8@„ QS P.O. gtaa4»

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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 17 March 1923, Page 5

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Page 5 Advertisements Column 6 Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 17 March 1923, Page 5

Page 5 Advertisements Column 6 Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 17 March 1923, Page 5